Exhibit to Feature Scholarship Students and a Howard Coleman Retrospective January 5th, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and runs through January 28th

Howard Coleman Bio

Howard C. Coleman was born December 19, 1926 to the late Harry Lee Coleman and Thelma Faidley Coleman.

Mr. Coleman worked as a general contractor before becoming a full-time artist, art teacher and art restoration expert.

After graduating from E.C. Glass High School, Mr. Coleman studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C. for 2 years. In 1956 his work was accepted for the Virginia Museum’s Juried Virginia Artist Exhibition, and in 1976 the Virginia Museum awarded him a Certificate of Distinction. He was a past president of Lynchburg Art Club and founder of the annual Lynchburg Art Festival. He was chairman of the Jones Memorial Library Perspective One Art how and served as a judge at numerous shows in the area.

Mr. Coleman was an accomplished gentleman. While stationed in Germany in the early fifties, Mr. Coleman won awards for plays he wrote in a competition for overseas Army personnel. One of these plays was translated into German and performed at Munich’s ShaspielHaus in Frankfort. Mr. Coleman wrote articles for Lynchburg Magazine on Lynchburg’s Civil War history. He was a member of the Poetry society of Virginia and his work was included in a book “Fingerpainting by Candlelight (1983) an anthology of poems.

Mr. Coleman was an instructor at the Lynchburg Art Club, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center and the surrounding counties. Some of his many students include Delmus Phelps, Gladys Martin, Solly Blank and the late Nancy Haysom.

After a battle with cancer, Mr. Coleman passed away January 22, 1996 and was laid to rest with his parents at Mountain View Cemetery in Vinton VA.

Lauren Brown Artist Bio

Lauren Brown is first-year student at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. A 2017 E.C. Glass graduate, Lauren’s art was featured on the senior art show poster and included in the school’s art collection. When asked what inspires her, she mentions the diverse people she has met during a trip to Japan and during her first semester at UVA. “Art is my way of better understanding what makes us individuals unique and what brings us together. It is my hope that through designing the buildings of the future, I can promote the unity among our diverse world through interactive built environments.” Her preferred mediums are pen and Copic Markers because of their “portability, vibrancy, and ease of use.”

Olivia Baker Artist Bio

Olivia Baker’s art explores themes of spirituality, coming of age, rights of passage, womanhood, and other personal and social issues in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of events, emotions, and human experiences. In her paintings and drawings, she aims to “sort through the nuance of the macro and highlight the wonder of micro.” She has completed one year of study at the University of Virginia and says she is now taking a “year on” to “follow a personal call to agency and more critical living.”